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"What holds together the globalist system is a massive and growing flow of capital from abroad, running to more than $2 billion every working day - and growing. There is no sense of strain. As a nation we don't consciously borrow or beg. We aren't even offering attractive interest rates, nor do we have to offer our creditors protection against the risk of a declining dollar".Precisely. And Trump is in the process of blowing up the world trading system so as to re-set it. Those western liberals, who today are gnashing teeth and lamenting the advent of 'Trumpian economics', are simply in denial that Trump has at least recognised the most important American reality - ie. that the pattern can't go on indefinitely, and that debt-led consumerism is way past its sell-by date.
"It's all quite comfortable for us. We fill our shops and garages with goods from abroad, and the competition has been a powerful restraint on our internal prices. It's surely helped keep interest rates exceptionally low despite our vanishing savings and rapid growth".
"And it's [been] comfortable for our trading partners too, and for those supplying the capital. Some, such as China [and Europe, particularly Germany], have depended heavily on our expanding domestic markets. And for the most part, the central banks of the emerging world have been willing to hold more and more dollars, which are, after all, the closest thing that world has to a truly international currency".
"The difficulty is that this seemingly comfortable pattern can't go on indefinitely".
"Donald Trump's 2025 Middle East policy balances Gulf investments and coercive diplomacy, pressuring Israel to align with US interests while still sidelining Palestinian concerns. His strategic pivot, marked by $600 billion Saudi deals, signals a transactional shift, with effects on the US-Israel 'special relationship'."Is US President Donald Trump doing a "balancing act" of sorts in the Middle East? His latest gestures towards the Saudis and Qatar, and even surprising statements about pressuring Israel into allowing humanitarian aid to get to Palestine clearly suggest so.
"Don't misunderstand me. I want Biden to get better and live many more years, so he can watch his family go broke from running out of influence to sell."If the slithering denizens of Okefenokee-on-the-Potomac were nervous about their fates before Sunday — and I'd say they've been rather jumped-up since Nov. 4 — then Maria Bartiromo's Sunday morning session with FBI top dawgs Patel and Bongino must have been a near-death experience for them. Something Roto-rooterish this way comes, officialdom must be thinking, if you can call utter hysteria "thinking."
-- Oilfield Rando on X
In our Constitution ... the judiciary is a co-equal branch of government, separate from the others, with the authority to interpret the Constitution as law and strike down, obviously, acts of Congress or acts of the president. That innovation doesn't work if ... the judiciary's not independent. Its job is to, obviously, decide cases, but in the course of that, check the excesses of Congress or of the executive. And that does require a degree of independence.To quote Vice President J.D. Vance, does John Roberts hear himself?
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Norm Eisen said he and Brookings are working with municipalities to implement the UN Sustainable Development Goals (which are not compatible with our constitution or our country's values).
Congressional republicans and the Trump administration MUST pass a law that bans the implementation of the SDGs. That is how they are implementing far-left "democracy" around the world using OUR taxpayer dollars.
USAID was the implementation vessel. Norm worked with USAID. Norm is now suing the Trump administration about USAID and DOGE. Talk about a conflict of interest.
Comment: Trump approach: Shake 'em hard. See who stands. See who breaks.